G.I.R.L.S

G.I.R.L.S is short for Godwin Igonoh Review's Life Situations. Part of what I seek GIRLS as a group would achieve is to help our society understand relationships and how best to channel our energy towards redefining Love so we can help young people deal with current issues of living and loving in our time; we’ll use scenarios and real life events to harness the opportunities embedded in the diversities of our experiences.

GIRLS offer a platform for everyone to share and get insight from opinion shared*

Bridging the cultural gap within Nigeria has never been so needful, the hold of tribalism and a dogged quest to conquer the opposite sex in a generation that is supposedly enlightened and Godly is alarming. Never has there been such contradictions between education, exposure and inability to let go of native practices that seek to outrun one over the other. Practices such as Man over woman, woman before man, who run’s this house and who owns who in a home, who rules and who is ruled.

Checking the pages of African history, you’ll see sordid encounter of people trying to prove their point of supremacy, its never really been clear where it all started from but the issue of co-existence goes way back as man and woman hardly stop blaming each other for what went wrong, when their effort should have been spent on fixing whatever had gone wrong.

In Nigeria, it’s been one parent blaming the other for the turn out of the child and the child blames the parent for his or her turn out, the fight goes on, but the issue we always ignore is-who can fix this. My answer remains... we have to fix this, and each person must take responsibility at every point and begin to build capacity to handle the issues arising. From our new relationships to our aging ones, we need to begin to be responsible for our actions and in-actions.

GIRLS like many other groups over the years would put out projects to support the development of the Nigerian mind to take responsibility for where we are and where we need to be, it’s a serious thing when the presumed productive percentage of a community refuses to realize that they have grown, and need to start dealing with life issues as people who can and will survive the times.

Therefore from my finances to my quest for a relationship, I need, you need to begin to reflect on what you did and what you have to do, for decision affects destiny. The degree of in-actions in the average upcoming Nigerian professional exceeds the actions taken thus far. We seldom resort to faith and am invisible hand of God to help restore what we never had. You cannot expect where you have not invested…so in the issue of love, life and wickedness, we all need to begin to reminisce on what we ought to do to achieve objectives and to correct mis-objectives.

The past is past and the future we can harness if we look into the now and build without guilt and fear of the unknown.


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